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Mexican printmaker and draughtsman José Guadalupe Posada is best known for his costumed skeleton characters or calaveras, which he used as a vehicle for satire. He contributed to numerous periodicals, but the political and social stance of these publications led to his repeated imprisonment.

Known foremost for his paintings of peasants, Jean François Millet supported himself as a sign-painter during many financially turbulent years before achieving international success later in life. His scenes of rural society evoke a lost golden age, and the ageless figures of his peasants stand with dignity in the space between earth and sky.

Join Benezit on a tour of unique art collections around the world! Written by experts and curators, our Collection Guides present the history and highlights of museums and galleries. Follow links to related texts in Oxford Art Online and around the web to learn more about the artists in these outstanding collections.

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Grove Art continues a major initiative to revise and expand Grove’s content on Latin American art and architecture. Led by Tom Cummins at Harvard University, this project includes scholarship on topics from the Pre-Columbian period to present day.